Eskom’s three-part power purchase programme – aimed at securing 1 000 megawatts of power to support the currently constrained power grid – is a move in the right direction, but questions arise around whether the private sector will have the capacity to support it.
Read:Eskom to procure emergency additional energy to ease load shedding Not an immediate solution Eskom’s plan comes after the country was thrust into another crippling round of load shedding which subjected consumers and businesses to Stage 6 power cuts – the highest stage to be implemented thus far out of eight possible stages. Stage 6 subjects the economy to between eight to 10 hours of rolling blackouts, with at least one session out of three a day with four straight hours without power.